Today I learned +

[Bohandas]

At least it has a name. Now how about treatment and cure?

Step One. Stop using chatbots.

Step Two. Touch grass.

Chatbot psychosis - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

To be fair that's just a more high tech version of social media echo chambers

 

[jian]

Today I learned about the symbiosis and co-evolution of figs and wasps, about how the female wasp is impregnated in the egg before flying over to a new would-be fig to lay her eggs and die, becoming part of the fig, and I kind of wish I didn’t. Thanks for that, Cassandra Khaw.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Today I learned about the symbiosis and co-evolution of figs and wasps, about how the female wasp is impregnated in the egg before flying over to a new would-be fig to lay her eggs and die, becoming part of the fig, and I kind of wish I didn’t. Thanks for that, Cassandra Khaw.

Yep. That’s why there’s a debate as to whether or not figs are vegan.

 

[MoonSong]

TIL (ok, two days ago, but I was busy with work) that bear dogs are a thing. (Ok were a thing). Ancient mammals that looked like bears with the built of a dog.

 

[jian]

Yep. That’s why there’s a debate as to whether or not figs are vegan.

Interestingly, when I Googled whether figs are vegan, the AI insisted that they were because the majority of commercially grown figs are self-pollinating; however, the actual articles linked indicate that no, commercially grown figs use wasps too, it's just that the farmers are careful to not let too many female wasps get into each fig (preferably just one) because then the fruit is over-pollinated and can explode (spoiling it). Get better, AI.

(The AI was correct that figs may be considered vegan because the dead wasp is part of a natural process and not part of human exploitation.)

 

[Mannahnin]

There are other fruits which sometimes digest invasive insects, ja? Like pineapples.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

There are other fruits which sometimes digest invasive insects, ja? Like pineapples.

Yes, but few are like figs, in that the digested insects are integral to the reproductive process.

 

[jian]

Interestingly, when I Googled whether figs are vegan, the AI insisted that they were because the majority of commercially grown figs are self-pollinating; however, the actual articles linked indicate that no, commercially grown figs use wasps too, it's just that the farmers are careful to not let too many female wasps get into each fig (preferably just one) because then the fruit is over-pollinated and can explode (spoiling it). Get better, AI.

(The AI was correct that figs may be considered vegan because the dead wasp is part of a natural process and not part of human exploitation.)

Actually, further research (and being corrected by Ursula Vernon herself) tells me that the AI is actually correct and most commercial fig varieties are self-pollinating after all.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

TIL stand up comedian Erica Clark is Mr. T’s daughter.

I’d post something, but…language.

 

[Autumnal]

Speaking of language, saw this today at a nearby Mexican grocery. Both goofy and cool, we thought.

https://lamodernausa.com/ensenas/